Can the Free Market End Global Poverty? Joseph Stiglitz vs. William Easterly
26 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in Bill Easterly, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, P.T. Bauer, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape
#climateemergency #globalwarming @GreenpeaceAP @Greens @NZGreens @jamespeshaw @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren @oxfamnz
26 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, Public Choice Tags: climate alarmists, pessimism bias

Dr. Ioannidis on Why We Don’t Have Reliable Data Surrounding COVID-19
26 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in econometerics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: action bias, economics of pandemics, pessimism bias, The fatal conceit
NHS is adored by @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren @uklabour
25 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: health insurance

When are asylum seekers illegal immigrants under the Geneva convention?
25 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, Economics of international refugee law, international economics, International law, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: economics of immigration

Robert D. Tollison laments the bureaucratic reluctance “to apply…even simple price theory”
25 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, Public Choice
Is @BernieSanders right? Is there a difference between socialism and communism?
24 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, growth disasters, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: economics of central planning, fall of communism, regressive left, The fatal conceit
Oops, Ministry concludes NZ didn’t need to close schools because of #COVID19 infection risks!!?
22 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, health economics

From https://www.health.govt.nz/system/files/documents/publications/covid-19_control_measures_to_deliver_covid-19_strategies_education_sector_evidence_review-21apr20.pdf and https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12326496
A Conversation with Harold Demsetz
22 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Armen Alchian, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, financial economics, George Stigler, health economics, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, resource economics, Richard Posner, Ronald Coase, Ronald Coase, Ronald Coase, survivor principle, theory of the firm, transport economics, urban economics
Rational irrationality? Oppositional identity? Virtue signaling?
21 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, income redistribution, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, public economics Tags: expressive voting, rational irrationality, virtue signaling

Average man is stronger than over 99% of women, taller than 97% of women
21 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

Agent-Based Modelling – 4.6.2 – Thomas Schelling, Part 1
20 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, defence economics, economics of information, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, Public Choice Tags: game theory
Jason Brennan: Fake Socialism vs. Real Capitalism
20 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in Adam Smith, applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, health and safety, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, Milton Friedman, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: Age of Enlightenment, capitalism and freedom, The Great Escape



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